Dark Horse Adds Tanabe Lovecraft Collection And Martial War
Dark Horse keeps building its Tanabe Lovecraft line with a collection that pairs the title story against his Chekhov and Gorky adaptations, while the Takei, Carter, and White graphic novel extends its American-Japanese collaboration push into fight comics.
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Dark Horse announced at its New York Comic Con 2026 panel that it will release Gou Tanabe's The Outsider and Other Early Adaptations collection, translated by Zack Davisson, gathering Tanabe's take on H.P. Lovecraft's The Outsider plus his Ju-Ga and adaptations of Anton Chekhov's The House with a Mezzanine and Maxim Gorky's 26 Men and a Girl. Dark Horse also announced Martial War, a graphic novel co-created by Hiroyuki Takei, Will Carter, and Aidan White, and the comic Blue Eye Samurai: Cry of the Yurei.
The collection puts Tanabe's adaptation of The Outsider alongside Ju-Ga and his interpretations of Chekhov's The House with a Mezzanine and Gorky's 26 Men and a Girl. Dark Horse described the lead story as a solitary being who escapes a decaying castle and finds a reality more terrifying than the isolation left behind. Zack Davisson handles translation.
Martial War has Hiroyuki Takei on art and covers, with Will Carter and Aidan White co-creating and co-writing, Jet Kusamura assisting on art, Steve Dutro lettering, and Karen Corpuz translating. Dark Horse says the story follows a country rebuilding after ninja warfare, where disgraced ninja fight in an arena called the Octagon and wield Tatara stones. The project draws on real moments in UFC fights and is made with the UFC.
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